Sentences with phrase «people were bidding»

Choose renters you want and tell them that other people were bidding up so the rent now is X % more, do they still want this place.

«A lot of people were bidding,» Donnelly says, «and even though I offered a little more, the seller didn't feel comfortable that I wasn't putting down 10, 15 or 20 percent.»

«We had a recent case where two technology people were bidding on a property on Capitol Hill,» he says.

And lots of people are bidding, which is just so wonderful.

They are, as the names suggest, what price people are asking for to be willing to sell their stock, and how much people are bidding to be willing to buy it at that moment.

Not exact matches

Even after Verizon's top bid, the spectrum was worth only 1.7 cents per person.

When a manager here comes to me and says certain commodities are going to be put up for bid in the coming months, I go through my files of people I have run across over the course of the past couple of years.

Trouble is, those readers will be bidding against people who are buying that stuff not just because they're smart, but because they have to.

«Mr. Louie's demonstration of support — he was also armed with referendum results showing his people backed the bid — would be especially attractive,» reported The Globe and Mail's Justine Hunter.

China's third - largest carrier China Telecom is preparing a possible bid for a contract to build and run a new mobile broadband network in Mexico and is seeking local partners to join it in a consortium, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

The more vague an understanding the people in your network have of what you do the less likely you are to get on the bid list or receive a hot tip.

The search company was one of the most vocal supporters of net neutrality and openness in wireless, going so far as to bid billions of dollars to ensure that people could use whatever devices and apps they wanted on whatever networks they wanted.

Trump has been very rich for a very long time, with a staff of people to do his bidding.

He added that he was «worried by the contacts that the Russians were having with US persons» and «had unresolved questions» by the time he left office about whether» the Russians had succeeded in getting Americans to do their bidding.

Regardless of which city potentially wins its bid, Clark said the federal government will be instrumental by making the connection between the Bank of Canada and People's Bank of China.

Some people are so eager to sit down with Buffett that they've bid up to $ 3.4 million to have lunch with him.

Apple was not part of any of those four bids, according to the person.

«What amazes me is that her handbag made # 25,000, and her suits sell for thousands too, so why aren't people bidding my bus?

In a way, Elite SEM was conceived as rebuttal to everything its founder and CEO Ben Kirshner found lacking in corporate America, where he met managers and executives more than happy to «slash and burn people left and right» in a bid to make more money for themselves.

«It's giving the gift of sleep to people,» he says in the product's pitch video on Kickstarter, in his first crowdfunding bid.

If it's not good, many people won't bother bidding.»

The twist is that people on the platform will also be paid Soma Tokens if they do things that benefit other people on the platform in a bid to foster a sense of community.

When asked about the campaign by a journalist, one of the unnamed activists remarked the «campaign is not meant to harm the gay people who live in the nine cities» [in unprotected states] that are bidding for Amazon's foothold.

Recommendation: In many cases, it makes sense to bid the highest for your own brand since people who are searching for your company are the most likely to convert.

«The Athletes» Village is close to my heart because I worked on both the bid and the closing, and I helped the team when I was working in the legal department with a lot of the contracts,» says Rosemarie Lipman, senior vice-president of people and culture.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter, that the bids were expected to be $ 2 billion (# 1.3 billion) to $ 3 billion (# 2 billion)-- significantly less than previously expected.

These are the same people who turn entrepreneurs and investors in a bid to give back to society,» informs Ashok.

Tech companies bidding for coveted talent are indirectly driving housing costs higher than most people can easily afford.

Elliott does not seem to share those qualms: On at least three occasions, according to both court testimony and the accounts of seven people who spoke with Fortune, children of people facing the hedge fund's attack have been pulled into the fray in some way, in an apparent bid to gain either information on or leverage against their parents.

Some private equity firms that had made it through to the second round will not be invited to submit third - round bids, another of the people said.

Verizon, the biggest U.S. wireless carrier, is seeking to challenge AT&T, the second largest U.S. wireless provider, in the third round of bidding, even though its latest offer was at the low end of the $ 3.5 billion to $ 5 billion range of the second - round bids that came in last week, the people said.

The people familiar with the matter asked not to be identified because the bids were confidential.

U.S. telecommunications rivals Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. are set to go through to the third and final round of bidding in the auction for Yahoo Inc.'s core internet assets, according to people familiar with the matter.

The last piece of advice I give people looking to make big deals is to avoid bidding wars at all costs.

Elliott's purchase from Fidelity Investments of $ 60 million worth of leveraged notes in Oncor's parent, Energy Future Intermediate Holding Co., was all it needed to do to block Buffett's bid, according to people familiar with the matter.

And the great worry is that young people, who traditionally provide the bulk of demand for single - family homes, are taking longer to leave their parents» basement or bid goodbye to their roommates and buy a place of their own.

When people were going into the auction, they were thinking they would get a deal because there were a lot [of Bitcoin], so I actually bid over-market and that's why I ended up getting all of them.

The people said Temasek's entry marks a rare instance where the fund is bidding against fellow Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC, which has partnered Carlyle.

Last year, officials from Moscow's government told local media that they were looking into the technology in a bid to reduce the risk of fraud when people are voting on city management issues.

The hedge fund would break even on its debt investment if the Berkshire bid prevails because gains in some parts of its debt holdings, which would be paid out in full, would offset losses in the unsecured bonds it holds, where it would take a deep haircut, the people said.

You can be very picky, and just bid for the people in your audience who also meet your demographic filters.

LONDON / NEW YORK Food giants Nestle, Kraft Heinz and Unilever are expected to bid for GlaxoSmithKline's Horlicks health nutrition business, which could fetch more than $ 4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

LONDON / NEW YORK, March 27 Food giants Nestle, Kraft Heinz and Unilever are expected to bid for GlaxoSmithKline's Horlicks health nutrition business, which could fetch more than $ 4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Bankrupt retailer Toys «R» Us has rejected an $ 890 million bid for some of its U.S. stores and locations in Canada from the CEO of Bratz doll maker MGA Entertainment Inc, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- U.S. telecommunications rivals Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc are set to go through to the third and final round of bidding in the auction for Yahoo Inc's core internet assets, according to people familiar with the matter.

LONDON / NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters)- Food giants Nestle, Kraft Heinz and Unilever are expected to bid for GlaxoSmithKline's Horlicks health nutrition business, which could fetch more than $ 4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

So if somebody goes out to buy a home they're bidding against other people for the same house and the winner is the person who can get the biggest bank loan and that's the person who says I'm going to pledge all the rental value to the bank so the bank gets all the rent as if it were the landlord.

And while there are now growing calls in the country for legislation to protect people's data — in a bid to steer off the next democracy - denting Cambridge Analytica scandal, at very least — any such process will take a lot of political will.

Broadcom Ltd. is considering a bid of more than $ 100 billion for Qualcomm Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest - ever takeover of a chipmaker.